11. Human perception has its shortcomings
Sinha and Poggio, Nature, 1996
(“The Presidential Illusion”)
12. But humans can tell a lot about a scene
from a little information…
What can you see in this image?
Human is more efficient than computer
Human Tracking in crowded scene, what you think?
Computer is more efficient than human
13.
14. The goal of computer vision
Recognize objects and people
Terminator 2, 1991
20. The goal of computer vision
Improve photos (“Computational Photography”)
Inpainting / image completion
(image credit: Hays and Efros)
Super-resolution (source: 2d3)
Low-light photography
(credit: Hasinoff et al., SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016
Depth of field on cell phone camera
(source: Google Research Blog)
25. Login without a password
Fingerprint scanners
on many new
smartphones and
other devices
Face unlock on Apple iPhone X
See also
http://www.sensiblevision.com/
32. Project Proposal
Written project proposal in pdf format.
Submit early for early feedback, but no later than
deadline.
Proposal must contain:
Title
Names of all team members.
Description of the goals of the project and the
work to be carried out (200-400 words).
+ references.
Indication whether you will use an Android
device.
If proposal is not acceptable, a revision wil4l
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be requested